I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

A man who tells you to follow him will turn his followers into his company, while a true leader who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers.

I've never lost anything, but I have given some things up.

One bliss for which there is no match is when you itch to up and scratch.

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.

Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened.

Before claiming that your own country have the best mountain or have the most wonderful forest or have the prettiest temple, first travel around the world!

We trust things more when they look like they were done for the love of it rather than the sheer commercial value of it.

You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.

As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought was important.